Pancakes with walnuts
walnut benches in the works
Hospice event - at the Marriott Monday
Hospice of the Shoals is having their annual fundraiser, "a little taste of goodness" was great fun last year. The best restaurants from the area show off their best dish for this amazing cause. I won't be able to attend this one, but have made my donation of a small piece of furniture again this year. And, as if I needed an excuse, it was a treat to see my old friend from grade school, Stan Simpson, who has just taken the marketing position with Hospice of the Shoals.
Linda's walnut salad with blue cheese
Linda's walnut salad with blue cheese.
Linda finds opportunities to use walnuts in many of her recipes. Pictured was a simple walnut salad with blue cheese. Any guess what wood species the dining table (it's sitting on) is??
celebrating a cherry tree's "life"
Doug and Gail Evans celebrated the life of their cherry tree Sunday, with beer and oysters.
mango with walnut salad
Here's a pic of the very simple salad we enjoyed Sunday - mango with walnuts. I really can't remember eating mango's that much as a kid. Don't know if they weren't avaialble, or we just weren't in the know. But this big/old kid grabs a few whenever they are available and looking good at the market. I think it might have been our friends from Guatamala, Guillermo and Ingrid that joined us for the Atlanta Olympics (whew, remember that one!) that might have taught us to appreciate Mango's in their many forms. Mango with walnut salad.
amazing table featured on cover of may's Architectural Digest
It clearly is not my personal style, which lately I've been calling new age mid century modern, but it works so well. There's walnut and sycamore. There are Arbus arm chairs, Holly Hunt fabrics. There's Louis XIV and art deco, and so much more. Wonderful example of just another way to showcase a wonderful natural, American made, (and let's not forget sustainable) "work of art" in a beautiful setting.
Ten Reasons people hate the south, by Leo King
1. Some people hate Southern accents.
2. Some fools think all Southerners are stupid because of those accents.
3. Some dopes still blame me for the Civil War, though I remember killing only three Yankees at Antietam.
4. Many black people I have met outside the South blame me personally for Jim Crow laws, segregation, the need for the civil rights movement, the death of Martin Luther King, the existence of the Ku Klux Klan, all lynchings, and the scourge of slavery.
5. Movie buffs hate the South because they have seen "Birth of a Nation," "Gone With the Wind," "In the Heat of the Night," "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Easy Rider."
6. A man from Ohio hates the South because he once ate grits at the Atlanta airport. He admitted that he put milk and sugar on them and thought it was the worst cream of wheat he'd ever tasted.
7. Many women who married Southern men, then divorced them, hate the South, as do many men who married Southern women and divorced them. All men and women who married Southerners, then divorced them, hate their Southern mother-in-laws -- ergo the entire South.
8. All liberals based in other geographies hate the South because it is so conservative. They refuse to believe that any true liberals could also be Southern.
9. All women not from the South hate Southern women because Southern women consider themselves far more beautiful than women of the lesser states.
10. All Americans who are not Southern hate the South because they know Southerners don't give a rat's fanny what the rest of the country thinks about them.
Again, this came straight out of Pat Conroy's South of Broad. Enjoy.
preconceived thoughts and judgements - some self reflection
The new revelation; My preconceived thoughts and judgments about them were probably just as off based as theirs were. Of course, I have/had incorrect judgements about people from LA, New York, Canada, Germany, India, Afghanistan, really anywhere that I have or haven't visited. Certainly anywhere I haven't lived and spent plenty of time getting to know the people and the area.
What has been reevealed here, is that I was just as bad or worse at making ignornant preconceived judgements as anyone that I had been judging for judging me!
To some degree is a quote from Pat Conroy's South of Broad which I will be posting next.
united nations billion tree campaign
UNEP billion tree campaign.
I cut down an oak - and I feel terrible about it.
Last week I cut an old oak tree down in our side yard, and it's been bothering me. Whereever guilt comes from, it has surfaced. I've still got the trunk to cut down, and all the limbs to cut and haul off before the visible remains of the source of this guilt (if that's the source) clears up.
It's amazing what a strong attachment we have to trees. They seem to be one of our closest, most comfortable connections with nature. The process of planting them, cutting them down (killing them) reminds me of the brief time we are here on this earth. I think each time I see a downed tree, I'm reminded of what a pitiful job we seem to be doing at protecting our planet.
Well, whatever the reason, I have acquired major guilt about this killing. Maybe there's a benefit to this tree's death? First of all, of course, I will be slabbing it and within a couple of years will have several tables to make from it. But another possibly stonger benefit is that each night, after I get home from work, I'm studying the options of one of my environmental committments - "take one - plant two". My previous efforts have been to donate to and plant trees here in North American, and more specifically right here withing 60 miles of my studio - where they were taken.
Now I'm thinking it might be more beneficial to plant maybe half of my commentment in other parts of the world - where they are needed most. Southeast Asia seems to be continuing to be clearcut and the landscape decimated, with little or no attempt to replace.
Today's thought is to modify my plan. For each tree I'm responsible for taking, to plant one tree locally (or at least in North America) and plant one in Southeast Asia or another part af the world where they are needed the most.
How many trees am I going to have to plant to make up for this one that I cut down in my own yard as well as the other's I'm responsible for taking? I don't know, but stay tuned.
Shaw Living is role model of Sustainability
GreenLeaders Certified Sustainability Course, SFC
This course was crammed full of great green information. I'd highly suggest the GreenLeaders course to anyone interested in the sustainabiliity of our planet.
high point market showroom teardown
american made tritter feefer
High Point Furniture History
High Point Furniture History. Several of the old timers stopped by and shared some great stories. I'm Hoping Charles Seemore Simmons will stop back by.
High Point Spring Furniture Market Press
Yesterday at the High Point Spring Market, a video crew from Wilmington stopped by to talk about American made sustainable products. Here Linda got a little video of the setup with our little Apple Iphone. Fortunately, the Iphone didn't seem to pick up any of the video.
High Point's IHFC Interhall Monday Morning
Quick clip of our space and neighbors at the High point IHFC Interhall showroom.
luxury designer elaine smith
All roads seems to lead to the luxurious elaine smith showroom this week. Seems like her beautiful, high heeled, long legged models were everywhere. They seemed to be constantly leading the masses of buyers to the elaine smith showroom. No complaints here. And the benefit for us, in addition to lovely visuals, was the masses seemed to be lead right past our space as well.
Just in case you haven't made it by and experienced for yourself, Elaine's space on the other end of isle 300 of interhall, it's a must see.
shaw living high point showroom
